Sir William Chambers

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Sir William Chambers was an influential 18th-century Scottish-Swedish architect best known for his neoclassical designs in Britain and his role as a leading royal architect to King George III.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Scottish person
Swedish person
architect
human
neoclassical architect
architecturalStyle Neoclassicism
Palladian architecture
surface form: Palladianism (early influence)
associatedWith Edinburgh
Kew
surface form: Kew Gardens

London, England
surface form: London
birthDate 1723-02-23
birthPlace Gothenburg
Sweden
burialPlace Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster
surface form: Westminster Abbey
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
deathDate 1796-03-10
deathPlace England
London, England
surface form: London
educatedAt Académie royale d’architecture
surface form: Académie Royale d’Architecture

Paris
Rome
employer George III of the United Kingdom
surface form: King George III
ethnicOrigin Scottish
genre architectural treatise
honorificPrefix Sir
influenced British neoclassical architecture
Sir John Soane
surface form: John Soane
influencedBy Andrea Palladio
French classical architecture
ancient Roman architecture
knownFor architectural designs in Britain
neoclassical architecture
role as royal architect to King George III
memberOf Royal Academy of Arts
name William Chambers
notableWork Buckingham House alterations
Dundas House, Edinburgh
Gower House, Whitehall
Kew Gardens Orangery
Melville Castle (attributed)
Pagoda in Kew Gardens
Pembroke House alterations
Somerset House, London
surface form: Somerset House

Upper Ward of Windsor Castle
surface form: State Apartments at Windsor Castle (works)

The Casino at Marino
occupation architect
author
positionHeld Architect to the King
First Architect to the King
Treasurer of the Royal Academy of Arts
Treasurer of the Household
surface form: Treasurer of the Royal Household (architectural role)
studiedUnder Jacques-François Blondel
visited China
France
Italy
wrote A Treatise on Civil Architecture
Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils

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Somerset House, London architect Sir William Chambers
James Gandon educatedBy Sir William Chambers